It is symbolic of the Senate's health care bill that the section titled "No lifetime or annual limits" would allow insurance companies to impose annual dollar limits on medical care, meaning that patients in need of expensive cancer treatment, for example, could still be bankrupted. ...more

December 17, 2009

Senate Republicans vowed Wednesday to use every available tactic to delay voting on the health care bill, as Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., scrambled to unify Democrats in support of the legislation. ...more

December 17, 2009

More than a year after the financial crisis devastated the U.S. economy and triggered massive taxpayer bailouts, the House of Representatives narrowly approved the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression in hopes of preventing a similar catastrophe. ...more

December 12, 2009

In a victory for people with cancer and other serious medical problems, the White House agreed Friday to help close a loophole in the Senate health care bill allowing annual dollar limits on their care. ...more

December 11, 2009

Our current system, which allows an elite few to amass unimaginable wealth by exploiting the sickness and suffering of millions of people, is immoral, unconscionable and un-American. Private enterprise should never be in control of people's life and death decisions. ...more

November 30, 2009

So what do you know about the health care bill? Unless you've been reading the legislation, you've probably been depending on talking heads, with their own agendas, to explain it. Here are some things to consider about the health care legislation, according to the Associated Press. ...more

November 29, 2009

The United States has the best health care in the world, but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health care bill (as with its 2,014-page House counterpart) is that it wildly compounds the complexity by adding hundreds of new provisions, regulations, mandates, committees and other arbitrary bureaucratic inventions. ...more

November 29, 2009

In 1985 Gov. Bob Graham's administration placed an important legal framework in place in Florida to control rampant, undisciplined growth that threatened wetlands, induced traffic congestion and promoted random sprawl. Until that landmark legislation, developers virtually built where they pleased, and taxpayers had to follow with schools, roads, sewers and the rest of the infrastructure that necessarily followed development. ...more

November 29, 2009

The competition in the Avon Park Middle School Gymnasium is on the line as Dontae Pinckney steps up to the basketball free through line, bounces the ball a couple of times and shoots. ...more

November 10, 2009

Turn that car stereo down, some state lawmakers want to tell drivers who crank up the volume to window-rattling levels. ...more

October 25, 2009